A sign language interpreter from Sweden who performed the country’s Eurovision Song contest entries on TV has become a viral sensation.

Tommy Krångh rehearsed the songs for five weeks before the performance and told the Guardian:

“I am always all in. I want to give the whole experience of the music. I have to give my whole body. When I get on the stage the music is pumping and I lose myself. I don’t know what’s happening. I am totally lost in the moment – but somehow I still know what exactly I am doing.”

Watch him in action below:

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This interpreter is absolutely brilliant, even though I didnt understand a word!!! He was so funny too!!! If only British interpreters were like him!!!! He is a marvellous sensation, am not surprised it went viral!!! Ya can easily watch him again n again………….!

“The flavour of a lingering kiss. The feeling of static in the air. We were there once. I need you now, meet me in Old Town tonight. I’m waiting in Old Town and I need you. Hail a taxi, hijack a train, run as fast as you can”

That’s basically it. A very mediocre song in my opinion but an amazing interpretation. I understand some of it but really, who needs yo understand it to enjoy it?

it concerns that interpreters get all the attention and that he was stealing the performer’s thunder. A good interpreter should direct the interviewer(s) to talk with the deaf people. The deaf people should be allowed to express what it is needed in addition to music interpretation

It wasn’t meant as an interpretation but rather a performance and the artists intrepretation of the songs. Not a verbatim translation. The only actual interpretation was the spoken parts of the show. Two of the sign language performers are deaf and yes I agree with you that it would be good if they all got a say in the media. One of the other performers have been interviewed on Swedish radio via an interpreter but the fact remains that the reason the whole thing went viral is because of CODA Tommy Krångh’s amazing performance.

This was a live feed with sign language interpretation broadcast on a separate channel just for deaf viewers. So he didn’t exactly “upstage” the performers, although I suppose some deaf viewers might have wanted the interpretation to be more subdued.

Sharon, Tommy is a CODA who works as an interpreter in everyday life. What he, and the other performers, did at the Swedish Eurovision trial out wasn’t interpretation of the lyrics per se, rather it was a poetic interpretation of the meaning of the song. The five weeks Sky News would’ve mentioned is the time they spent rehearsing their performances. Not five weeks to learn sign language.